THIS PROJECT WILL OUTLINE THE FUTURE HISTORIES OF 10,000 REAL-WORLD CITIES AND TOWNS AS THEY FACE-UP TO LOOMING ECOLOGICAL CHALLENGES. ...

The future of Philadelphia.

The Art of Imagining Urban Futures

This project forecasts the futures of more than 1000 cities across the globe as though they've somehow overcome all the grave environmental challenges our age and grown to become super Green and super-ecofriendly. This month, we highlight the future of Perth, Australia. Some cities in the developed world are manicured to within an inch of life. They have precisely cultivated trees lining quiet sidewalks fed by impeccably timed water sprinklers. Perth, the capital of Western

The future of Bethlehem

The Ecotopia 2121 project employs numerous techniques to study the urban future; for example extrapolations from historical patterns or...

Toronto residents vote for eco-taxes!

This project details the futures of more than 100 cities and towns across the globe as they fight to overcome all the grave environmental...

Buckle up—because Livorno didn’t fix its canals by polishing the past. It flipped the whole system upside down with radical Green techno-social chaos (in the best way).

Using the supremely optimistic forecasts of Utopian literature, this project details the best-case scenarios of the futures of real world cities across the globe. This month, we highlight the future of Los Angeles. During the 1940s and 1950s, the streetcar car lines of Los Angeles were systematically bought-up and then closed-down and dismantled by a group of conspiring auto companies led by General Motors Ltd. Los Angeles' defunct streetcars -- circa 1950 In the Los Angele